Author Archive: the Curbman

Well, it’s been three years since anything has been posted here at McChoppin. Actually, for me it’s really four years as the last post, about whipping up Crab Mac n’ Cheese, was by my lovely wife. A lot of things…Read more

Its Christmas and its crab season here on the West Coast. And that means crab macaroni and cheese. Crazy I know. It is worth the time and effort to make your own bechamel sauce. If you don’t have a Julia…Read more

The 2011 has come and gone without much from McChoppin, but not before we had another winter campout. The 2011 Winter Campout: it was significantly different than all previous years. Never had we had a tent; this year but only…Read more

On December 27th when most of Northeast was reeling from the major nor’easter snowstorm, the Slickman, Dan the Man, and I embarked on the 7th annual winter campout. Herein lies the detailed account of the events. Although preparations for the…Read more

McChoppinites! So I’ve had bikes on the brain lately. I finally got my bike back from Iowa on Monday1, and while I was waiting for it to arrive, I purchased a bunch of new bike stuff. Nothing like RAGBRAI to…Read more

McChoppinites, you may already know, but I love the work of the original post-it note comic artist Marc Johns. But I am starting to have a sneaking suspicion why this is: I might be Marc Johns. All right, I should…Read more

I got back yesterday from Iowa after participating in the 38th addition of RAGBRAI. For those of you who don’t know what RAGBRAI is, the one sentence explanation is that it is part state fair and part Bay to Breakers1…Read more

Do it. Make One. I did and it worked smashingly. And I definitely have the best looking sleeping bag of anyone I know. Who do you know with a striped worsted wool mummy bag? Make one of your own and…Read more

McChoppinites, I’ve returned! To talk once more talk about my hero Shackleton. One of the perks of working in a research environment is I get to hear about other people’s interesting research, and, way before it’s on NPR. Today I…Read more

I had previously promised that I would write a post about the winter campout after I got photos from it developed. Just before going back East for the holidays I had discovered this laying about. (photo by www.D2k6.es) Well, I…Read more